Tuition for the 2007-2008 school year for Grades K-12 is $15,725.
Punahou is the most prestigious elite private school in HI. To put it in perspective, the tuition for undergrad at the University of Hawaii per semester for 12 credits is $3,129 (for HI residence).
It’s less about tuition (which is heavily subsidized by trust funds set up for native Hawaiians) than it is about who gets in-—check it out further
Especially check it out during the time Obama was a student there and Asians were being excluded by designed admissions discrimination